CAMERA SPOTLIGHT
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SEDONA, ARIZONA VENUE SPOTLIGHT Meet the Instructor: Reed Thorne Click on the photos to enlarge them | |||
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"SOME RIGGING TAKES YOUR BREATH AWAY!" Left and middle, Doug Clark takes off on a 1,000' highline along the Mitten Ridge in pictureque Oak Creek Canyon during the 2005 Advanced Skill Rescue Workshop. Right, one of Reed's personal favorites, featured in the CMC Rescue Catalog about the Arizona Vortex Multipod showing an A frame high directional for a litter bypass on a 450' highline. All photos by Reed Thorne |
An Australian student practices rope access techniques in Oak Creek Canyon at Midgley Bridge north of Sedona on Hwy 89A. See Rope Access Skills Workshop Level 1 | ||
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| Captain Tom Briggs and Pat Plexico both of Sacramento Metro Fire District (CA) enjoy riding a reeving highline at Devil's Kitchen during Advanced Skills Rescue Workshop in 2006 | Students using Arizona Vortex Multipod® for a two rope offset during Team Skills Rescue Workshop at Devil's Kitchen. | The Sedona Fire District will host the annual Structural Tower Rescue Workshop in Sedona Arizona each year. The venue is exciting for the students as it offers many difficult structural problems. Here on the left is 165' high Midgley Bridge where students perform rescues oveer Wilson Canyon one mile north of Uptown Sedona on 89A. The Schnebley Hill Radio Tower is also overe 200' high and filled with radio antenna. In this photo, the students use a skate block to rescue off one side of the tower to the ground. | |
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| The ever popular Mountain Rescue Workshop is held on both basalt crags (middle) and red sandstone (left and right). Students learn the placement of rock climbing protection for major system anchors. Right: students practice litter scoops mid face and then lowering to ground (left). The MRW is held every February for mountain rescue and search and rescue teams around the USA. | The Sedona Fire District will host the annual Structural Tower Rescue Workshop | ||
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| RTR holds it's Tower Rescue Workshop on a local power transmission tower, here featured on the cover of ADVANCED RESCUE TECHNOLOGY magazine. | A spectacular photograph taken by Sterling Rope photographer John Burcham during the 2,115' extreme highline between Courthouse Butte and Bell Rock in 2007 after the Advanced Skills Rescue Workshop. These two buttes serve as the gateway to the Sedona/Oak Creek Canyon area as you travel up on AZ 179 from I-17 coming from Phoenix. | Intricate and intelligent rigging. Always worth a good photograph! | Lowering through the center of the Schebley Hill Radio Tower during the Sedona Fire Districtl Structural Tower Rescue Workshop |
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| Left, a Canadian student, Paul Fenlon, practices rope access techniques in Oak Creek Canyon. Right, Tim Lefler of Sedona Fire Department performing a rope to rope transfer high about Oak Creek along Midgley Bridge. Note the sun bathers below on the rock. See Rope Access Skills Workshop Level 1 | Left, The Thorne home which Reed built in 1990. The chimney is 33' high and made from stone and brick. Here one of students redpoints the chimney and is about to make the crux move to the top. Right, Reed's Golden Retriever "Bonnie B. Good" also known as the Poopiddy. Bonnie attends most of the workshops in Sedona mooching food from the students during lunchtime! | ||
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| During the Mountain Rescue Workshop in Sedona, the students sometime get the chance to work in one of the areas many sink holes. This one involves the use of headlamps and is over 100' in depth. | Students perform a litter scoop using the Arizona Vortex Multipod A frame and gin pole in tandem during the 2008 Advanced Skill Rescue Workshop on Doe Mountain in Oak Creek Canyon. | Greg Powell and Greg Sobole practices advanced aid climbing up over an overhang in Oak Creek Canyon. See Rope Access Skills Workshop Level 1 | The Sedona Fire District will host the annual Structural Tower Rescue Workshop in Sedona , Arizona |
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